Hope College will present two filmslater this month in conjunction with national Black HistoryMonth.

The public is invited. Admission is free.

The film "The Biography of W.E.B. Dubois" will bepresented in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 20-21,and "The Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings Story" will bepresented on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Both films will be shown inthe Maas Center conference room at 7 p.m.

"The Biography of W.E.B. Dubois" explores the lifeand career of Dubois, who lived from 1868 to 1963, from theera of Reconstruction to the era of Jim Crow. As a scholar-activist, he founded the National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People (NAACP) and organized thefirst Pan-African Congress, in addition to being a prolificwriter. His most famous work was "The Souls of Black Folk."

"The Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings Story" isa PBS Adult Learning Service video that features a dialogueabout family history, race relations and America's responseto the controversy surrounding the relationship betweenJefferson and Hemmings. The half-hour program presents adiscussion between Wayles Jefferson, who traces his roots toJefferson, and his wife Martha, and Tina Andrews,screenwriter of the television miniseries "Sally Hemmings,An American Scandal."

Additional information about the film series maybe obtained by calling the college's Office of MulticulturalLife at (616) 395-7867, or on the office's web site,www.hope.edu/multicultural[2].